For somebody who’s almost as full of themself as I am, you’d think that she’d at least have a different portrayal of herself within her own mindscape. Like a benevolent Goddess who sometimes does the Nelson Muntz laugh at us when we go down.
Grendal…GrenDog?
I’ll copy-paste my idea from another thread:
Why do exterminatus? For 90 billion city, spread of cultists and their control over it’s territory very limited and fairly contained by imperium forces.
I think by design we don’t have a clear picture of the full situation on Atoma… there could be many reasons for Exterminatus. From the Grey Knights point of view all are corrupted already…
Mortis Trial memory also has it as being recommended already…
Huh… should probably start adding actual lore bits here..
JoJo’s Grendel reveal ideas
Further name speculations… since Zola’s memories spelling are typically off “Agustine” to in game “Orgustine” looking outside actual spellings and more of how its sounded out in game.
Mourning Star:The biblical ‘Morning Star’ title for the devil or lucifer
The ship is often referred to as cursed, with blessing seals on our air purifier systems….More of a hint were… not entirely the good guys… the ship is so cursed we have purity seals on our Air conditions
Brahm:braham gender neutral father of many. As the ship family constantly extending to new members over their subjects…
If Grendyl is the presumed great grandfather Brahm he is the eldest father… also contrary to opponent grandfather nurgle. (mysterious voice also matched Grendyl’s in Arbites reveal trailer)
Its possible the first names have more meaning for the Brahms… and unknown of grandfather Brahms first name unless its literally Grendyl Brahms
Magali: biblical Magdalene meaning tower or fortress
Emora: and/or Amora meaning love…saw one reference of Armor as well…
Kharib:Karib, Close/Near/Intimate as the Mysterious Voice (Grendyls) care taker
Kharib is maintain the Mysterious Voice on the ship and drawing extensive power for his..”projects”
Sefoni:maybe Seth…+ Oni…. Appointed or Placed…. Evil Spirit or Demon
…she was also suspected of being a Tzeetch Daemon host….
Urmal: Who’s name means to join
She’s responsible for saving Rinda after we defeated the twins and has gifted her / joined her with Nurgle beginning to transform into something else… Plague Bearer? Maybe she’s simply joining the heretics with daemons and machines with daemons in general…
Rinda: (Rindr) Is a norse legendary giant wife of Odin (possibly nurgle in our case) who gives birth to several offspring…
Apparently Vox Intercept VI was related to Rinda’s survival and gift…set to private
Orthus Offensive Mission fighting Karnak twins
Orthus: In Greek mythology was a two-headed dog who guarded Geryon’s cattle and was killed by Heracles.
Ogryn obvi Hercules unfortunately not smart only killed 1 of the heads..
Misc references
Mobian Steel maybe inspired by Damascus Steel, a lost art of forged steel weapons. (was one of Beowulf’s later swords)
HeROT: the party hall Grendyl attacks in book… got nothing but ROT and symbolized civilization and order… of CHAOS possibly disrupted in past by Grendyl
Grendyl Mother figure… perhaps is Sefoni (water daemon!) and the Dragon Nurgle who posions Beowulf!
It seems if Grendyl follows his name’s sake he is destined to die and he did some major attack on chaos in Atoma’s past that inevitably breaks out… overwhelms us all!
OMG it occurs to me… campaign name maybe a reference…
Like the LoTR prophecy no man can kill me… so he gets killed by a woman… but maybe with an alien Genestealer / Daemon twist at the end?
Battle for Tertium is further developed for Daemons / Chaos?
The Road to No Man’s Land primed for future for Genestealers with logo found in tank mission.
Potential Theory Spoiler Below…
…I forgot to go over Zola even after pointing out the spelling ><
I think she is actually quite more pivotal than expected…
This name never quite fit for me, very low energy name for an evil organization. But this crazy cult really does believe and wants to convert to grandfather Nurgle, to save the residents of Atoma from the suffering of resisting Nurgle… I think they are the vanguard and priests to a larger evil presence of CHAOS… If FatShark gets its story going… its going to be big!
There is Admonition prophecy Dev Blog: Ritual & Prophecy
“Power in siblings” to usher in the coming tide; we & Admonition wrongfully believe we have stopped it for now… but it was the wrong pair of siblings… something may happen between “Augustine” & “Wolfer”…Zola being destroyed by the “Vandals” yet still standing and “Beowulf” tearing off the right hand woman to “Grendyl” leading to his demise and real…DARKTIDE
Edit: Actually may end up being a different right arm, a bit of a radical redemption arc and an epic story if done right…
Misc hints from Dev Blog
…Maybe Zola can turn Wolfer and he will be redeemed… I do always like a good redemption arc… Theon Greyjoy and Anakin Skywalker… this would be such an epic twist sorry if my speculations ruins it -.-
Besides the names, journals are obviously giving us clues
Reinforcing the prophecy of siblings…
Rolling Steel… okay that was released before blog…maybe not in-game timeline as shows up as “Road to No Man’s Land” Campaign as 1st map. It is canonically right as Dukane arrives and is destined for her base of operations.
Eludes to ‘ancient’ sense of this conflict perhaps the last climax where Grendyl saved the Hive last.
Sadly not a lot of these journals especially recently =/
Seems Dukane’s Journal uncovered Admonition before Rannick and also mentioning the age of the contaminant
Funny the reinforcements of Dukane is asking for more reinforcements… next class? or needed for larger looming threat… or both.
Just for Reference…mostly Dukane being Dukane